Two starts ago she swept home to easily win a much weaker BM 58 at Nowra before only being beaten a long neck by rival Canberra visitor La Sante in the BM 80 Federal at home on December 27.
Itโs hard to believe Smarter Than You, who has a near 20 per cent winning strike rate from 27 starts, opened up $10 in early betting, while La Sante was even longer around the $13 mark.
Another Queanbeyan raider, Toes In The Water, was at the head of early betting around $4.50.
Private Harry enters Everest conversation
Boom colt Private Harry stamped himself as a genuine option for Everest slot-holders with a slashing win in the inaugural $3 million Magic Millions Sunlight 3YO Plate (1100m) on the Sunshine Coast.
The son of Harry Angel remained unbeaten after four starts and gave the Hunter team of trainer Nathan Doyle, jockey Ash Morgan and owners Kurrinda Bloodstock their biggest victory.
Private Harry raced outside the lead before kicking clear over the final 300m to beat Golden Slipper champion Lady Of Camelot by two and a half lengths in the slot race on Saturday night.
A $115,000 buy, Private Harry took his earnings to $1,376,275. Sportsbet wound him into an $18 chance for Octoberโs $20 million Everest (1200m).
Wooloowin also won for Doyle on the transferred program, taking out the $250,000 Magic Millions Rising Stars.
Craig Kerry
Olive feeling good ahead of Moruya Cup
Queanbeyan trainer Nick Olive expects Toes In The Water to get forward from a wide gate and make her own luck in the Moruya Cup, a Big Dance qualifier, on Monday.
Olive scratched Toes In The Water, a four-year-old mare, from a benchmark race at Randwick on Saturday in favour of the 1425m Cup, where she has gate 10 of 13. With Coriah Keatingsโ claim, Toes In The Water will carry just 52.5 kilograms.
โObviously, it was a tougher race in Sydney, and this is a good race tomorrow and a Big Dance qualifier,โ said Olive, who won the Highway Handicap on Saturday with Moritz Girl.
โAnd just with hardly any city horses in it, I thought it was a good opportunity for an up-and-coming horse to have a crack at it. Itโs a good run there from the 1400 and it will just roll forward and make its own luck from out there.โ
Craig Kerry
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